Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

              There's A Problem With The Lovelady Script

                                   by Ralph C. Cinque

You know about the famous clip of Billy Lovelady milling around outside the TSBD doorway 15 minutes after the assassination in his plaid shirt. 

Although it was supposedly taken on 11/22/63, it was never mentioned or even noticed until 3 years later, in 1966, coinciding with Harold Weisberg's firestorm that Lovelady wore a short-sleeved striped shirt. 

Also, the clip was claimed to be from the Martin film, even though it has never been found in any version of the Martin film. It was reportedly discovered in the DCA film compilation, but how it supposedly got separated from the Martin film no one knows. Who took a scissor to the Martin film? No one knows or seems to care. 

And qualitatively, the Lovelady clip is very different from the Martin film. Looking below, does the frame on the left look like it was taken with the same camera as the frame on the right? 

But, these are the least of the problems that this clip has. What's worse is that there are people in it who could not have been there, which is to say, that their own testimonies establish that they were elsewhere. I am referring to Billy Lovelady, Danny Arce, and Bonnie Ray Williams. 

We have already established that the Lovelady figure could not possibly have been Lovelady because Gorilla Lovelady from the clip is vastly different from the real Lovelady anatomically.

So, in this case, it doesn't matter what anybody said, including Lovelady, because they are two different guys, period. The anatomy says so, and nothing trumps the anatomy. However, the fact is that Lovelady never claimed to be this guy, nor did his chatty wife ever claim that it was him. But worse than that, his Warren Commission testimony conflicts with him being there. 

In that testimony, Lovelady said he left the doorway almost immediately with Shelley, that they were part of the throng that poured into the railway area, "running and hollering" as Lovelady put it. That happened right away. And then they went around to the back and re-entered the TSBD through the back door. And then they were inside for a long time- until it was time to leave for City Hall. So, there is NO CHANCE that 15 minutes after the assassination Lovelady was out in front smoking a cigarette and milling around.  There isn't even a theoretical chance that Lovelady was out front at that time- even if we didn't have an anatomical veto, which we do have. 

What about Danny Arce? Well, he said the same thing, that he joined the throng that went storming into the railway area after the shooting. And then he said he re-entered the building and was there until it was time to go to City Hall. He said nothing about milling around in front. But, in his case, the guy purported to be Danny Arce isn't even the right ethnicity to be him.

The Danny Arce figure in the Lovelady clip (on the left) is a white guy, but Danny Arce (on the right) is a Hispanic guy. Observe also that the white guy on the left had a highly flared ear; his ears stuck out; whereas Danny's ears are streamlined, flush with his face. 

So, forget it. That pasty white guy on the right can't possibly be Danny Arce. 

So, that's two down. What about Bonnie Ray Williams?

This one is a close call, but I have to wonder if the real BRW on the left was skinnier than the man on the right from the clip. Doesn't the real BRW (left) look more spindly to you? And look how long his neck was. Consider the distance between his collar and his ear and then compare it to the other guy. And compare their hairlines. Doesn't it look like the guy on the right has some recession going on? Aren't we seeing more scalp on him? 

Also, I am wondering about the collar button. Doesn't it seem larger on the BRW figure in the film than on the real Bonnie Ray?

So, we've got some doubts about him too, and when we turn to his testimony, we find out that he at his lunch alone (fried chicken) on the 6th floor (and he didn't see Oswald). Then he joined Harold Norman and James Jarman on the 5th floor where they watched the motorcade from the windows. Then they hung around some to watch the throng of people descending on railway area, which they could see from the windows. Then, they went downstairs, stopping briefly on the 4th floor, and when they got to the bottom, they were stopped by police who questioned them and collected their vital information. Now look at this:

Mr. BALL. Did you go out of the building shortly after you came downstairs?
Mr. WILLIAMS. They wouldn't let anybody out of the building. 

What? Do you realize what that means? It means that Bonnie Ray Williams could not possibly have been milling around out in front 15 minutes after the assassination, as per the Lovelady clip. 

So, it means that all three of the famous witnesses that we see in the Lovelady clip were surrogates. 

So, what does this mean? It means that the clip is FAKE, that it was staged. When was it made? It was probably made not long before it was discovered in 1966. Is any part of it real footage from the assassination or is the whole damn thing a re-creation? 

I'm inclined to think the latter because the whole thing is just too weird. You've got these old people up their on the landing, an old woman on the right, and an old man on the left. Who are they and what are they doing there? This was just 15 minutes after the assassination. They didn't work there. So, what were they doing there? What were they waiting for? What reason did they have to climb those steps? You've got a woman with her hair up in curlers who never moves. Who attends a Presidential parade with her hair up in curlers? You've got a guy wearing a hard hat, and he goes up on the steps too. What's his story? 

But regardless, what we know for absolute sure now is that these three famous people, Billy Lovelady, Danny Arce, and Bonnie Ray Williams in the Lovelady clip were all impostors.

One way or another, this was faked, and the reason it was faked is that Lovelady really did wear a short-sleeved, striped shirt, as Harold Weisberg said. This is a very elaborate, high-tech hoax. When the FBI blew it by admitting, in writing, that Lovelady wore a striped shirt, that is what launched them into the movie business; the fake movie business. And they've been at it ever since.